The increase came despite a negative reaction from some corners of the technology world to Google’s “Search Plus Your World” initiative, which added data from social networks to search results, focusing heavily on its own Google+ social network. Critics of the changes said they diminished the quality of Google’s search results.

Also during the month, Google announced plans to unify its privacy policies and collect data about users across its various online properties, prompting some users to say they were considering canceling their Google accounts.

Nonetheless, Google rose 0.3 percentage points to 66.2 percent of the U.S. market in January, according to the comScore statistics.

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So what? MS has lost about $8 billion so far trying to compete against Google in search. And so far Google has actually gained share, not lost it.

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So what? MS has lost about $8 billion so far trying to compete against Google in search. And so far Google has actually gained share, not lost it.

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They own search and doubt that will change.

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But that could change, but I already know that people are so used to Google that most don’t like Bing, or never even heard of it.

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It could. But if there is a change it’s more likely to come from a disrupter (e.g. Facebook) versus a clone (Bing).

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Bing is not a clone. It is an upgrade from Microsoft’s previous search engine, Live Search. I don’t know whey they changed it. It was perfectly fine for me.

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For all effective purposes it’s a clone. For most people they’re interchangeable, only with Bing coming up short. There are very few things that Bing offers which Google can’t do, and many that Google can do that Bing can’t (like site-wide date search). MS is even now talking about dropping the “decision engine” marketing and going back to general search. Again, you can’t beat a dominant leader with a clone, unless you compete on price. And the latter doesn’t work in this case since it’s free to the user and the scale economics are all in Google’s favor. Facebook on the other hand has a walled garden and unique value add in its social grid. Which is why Google is putting most of its efforts into G+, not their Bing compete strategy.

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I would still say Bing is not a clone. It it was a clone, there would be one big lawsuit. It is just another search engine, and prefer it over Google. I do give some credit to Google, though, because I use them to power my blog, which uses Google search. I do have Bing translator installed on it, though.

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Semantics. Clone, copy, or just too similar to represent any serious threat or disruption. Your choice.